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For someone who drives as much as I do, you’d figure I’d have bought a proper car mount for my phone years ago, but I always resisted or procrastinated – at least I did up until this past weekend when I found myself perusing Best Buy for nothing in particular. I spotted this small orange …

My mom passed away about a month ago on July 10th, 2013. I loved her so much. And now my attention turns to my Dad. It’s so difficult. Together for 50 years and then suddenly alone. You can’t cheat your way out of grief so I’m told. The only way out is through. My daughter …

Hmm. Maybe a pseudo brain dump is the best way to get myself back into writing here. Nothing terribly brave, but baby steps I say. Sometimes it’s good to just stop for a moment and take stock. It’s been a long time since I’ve really written anything here, and some things have definitely changed. Perspective …

Did you know that Ostrich Sans is quite a beautiful typeface? In fact, you could probably use it as a heading font for a website design and be quite pleased with it. Well actually, that’s what I just did. Yes, after literally years of neglect, I finally updated my main website rfquerin.org. Please have a …

If you’re interested in having some silly fun (or maybe getting sent to the doghouse by your significant other) here’s an app for you. FatBooth is an app that takes a head-on photo of a person’s face and adds.. oh.. maybe 200 pounds. It’s dead simple to use and generates surprisingly good results. Using …

If there’s one thing I use a lot, it’s Google’s “define:” keyword. I’ve got a pretty good handle on this here English language, but often I’m looking up words I see somewhere and don’t quite understand. In fact I’ve had whole online conversations with smart people where I’ve spent a great deal of that time …

I’ve just installed the WPtouch plugin on my weblog. This gives visitors coming from mobile devices a specially formatted view of this site. I think it can be tweaked and customized, and of course I have done neither. It looks decent enough and it does prevent any requirement for pinching and zooming. It also gives …

The recent Smashing Magazine post “Designers, ‘Hacks’ and Professionalism: Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?” is an interesting one. I urge you to read it. It brings up several different issues but one that struck a chord with me was the whole feeling about the commoditization of design. With sites like 99designs.com which leverage design …

If you’ve been reading this weblog for the last little while (thanks for sticking around btw) you’ll know that while the posts are sporadic, as of late they’ve been hovering around various topics under the general umbrella of ‘design’. And when you think of the Free and Open Source Software community, perhaps ‘serious design discussion’ …